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level of Advertising is getting Ridiculous
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on June 27, 2020, 11:42:21 am ---Are you people unaware that the way the universe works is that people receive services, and pay money in return? That's how it works. That's how you have a job. That's how you have money. That's why there are businesses like department stores and supermarkets. That's how it works. You RECEIVE a service, and in turn you PAY for the service.
Is there some belief that, for some insane reason, computer software and youtube videos are somehow different? They aren't. Advertisements are the way that you pay for the service. Ideally, you click on them so the poor youtube creator can make $0.00002 of revenue for his hard work.
Yeah, great, block the ads. And as is happening now, tech and other useful stuff on youtube will dwindle to nothing, and all we'll be left with is videos of cats playing piano that get 25 trillion views. :palm:
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I really hope you're not saying Youtube content quality went up with increased monetisation. Early Youtube was quite creative and without immense pressure on likes, subscribing and views. Money does open some doors but it mainly brought endless amounts of cookie cutter and clickbait content. With money the worst of TV also came over.
Simon:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 03, 2020, 04:23:41 am ---
--- Quote from: Simon on July 02, 2020, 09:27:54 pm ---Some youtubers are joining curiosity stream or nebula
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That seems to be a small collection of science/info type channels who all know each other and hang out etc. AFAIK the invitation has not been extended to channels outside their little club.
I cannot find any info at all on how creators can "join". Not surprising though given the high production quality nature of the content.
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Yes that would appear to be the case. I don't know how successful they will be. At $20 a year they can't match youtube for bandwidth and it shows.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 03, 2020, 06:17:39 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 03, 2020, 04:23:41 am ---
--- Quote from: Simon on July 02, 2020, 09:27:54 pm ---Some youtubers are joining curiosity stream or nebula
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That seems to be a small collection of science/info type channels who all know each other and hang out etc. AFAIK the invitation has not been extended to channels outside their little club.
I cannot find any info at all on how creators can "join". Not surprising though given the high production quality nature of the content.
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Yes that would appear to be the case. I don't know how successful they will be. At $20 a year they can't match youtube for bandwidth and it shows.
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I think I got a half price thing like $10 for the whole year for both CuriosityStream and Nubula.
They can't stay in business at that level.
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 03, 2020, 06:17:39 am ---Yes that would appear to be the case. I don't know how successful they will be. At $20 a year they can't match youtube for bandwidth and it shows.
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All they have to do is adopt Bittorrent as a content distribution system and offer a small discount to those who generously seed. Make a ready to go image for Raspberry Pi or similar to make it easy for anyone to make low power 24/7 seeding nodes.
Simon:
what like lbry? You also need 100's of GB of space. People are already complaining that lbry fills their hard drives and with 160GB on mine now that I found it I will be trimming back soon. I don't even see my wifi working in upload so doubt I happen to have the same interests as others
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